Improvement in drawers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IRVING A. HOWE, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRAWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,885, dated August8, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRVING A. HOW'E, of Boston, in the county of Sutlolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Drawers,Snc.; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connectionwith the drawing which accompanies and forms part of this specication,is a description of my invention, suflcient to enable those skilled inthe art to practice it.

In making drawers it is customary to make the legs separate, joiningthem together at the seat or body by a central seam. This seam not onlycauses an unpleasant and troublesome tightness at the crotch, so thatthe strain tends to impede free movement of the legs, but the seamitself is a source of irritation to many persons.

To obviate this defective construction I make such a garment with aninserted piece or gusset between the legs, said gusset being preferablyci' lozen ge-shape, and, being whole or unseamed at its center, by itsposition and rela-tion to the leg part on each side of it, it insuresperfect freedom ot' movement ofthe legs, the fullness effected by itrendering it impossible, under any possible movement of the legs, thatthe cloth between them can be tightened or brought .under strain.

It is in a pair of drawers having a whole or unseamed gusset-pieceinserted between the legs at the crotch, and imparting a fullness to thegarment at this point, and lapped and protected in part by theily-pieces, that my improvement consists.

The drawing represents the upper or crotch part of a pair of drawersembodying the improve ment.

a b denote the two legs; c, the upper part or body; d, the opening orny; e, the gusset-piece; and j' g, the two fly-pieces which lap theupper or front point of the gusset-piece c, serving to strengthen andprotect it.

It will thus be seen that the strength will be given just where it ismost needed, and the fullness,without any middle seam, just where it isneeded; and there cannot, under any conditions, be any strain upon thegore or gusset, which never becomes distended or strained during wear.

' I lay no claim to elastic or perforated gorcs of' any kind, but

I claim- The described improvement in drawers, consisting in formingthem with the full unseamed piece or gusset e inserted and located asshown and set forth, the point of the gusset being protected by theiiy-piccesf g lapping thereon.

IRVING A. HOWE.

Wlitnesscs:

FnANcIs GoULD, S. B. KIDDER.

